I doubt if ever the history of the

I doubt if ever the history of the world, or the experience of past ages,could show a larger amount of insanity than that of the present day.It seems, indeed, as if the world was moving at an advanced rate of speed proportionate to its approaching end; as though, in this rapid race of time, increasing with each revolving century, a higher pressure is engendered on the minds of men and with this; there appears a tendency among all classes constantly to demand higher standards of intellectual attainment, a faster speed of intellectual travelling, greater fancies.greater forces, larger means than are commensurate with health.